Wanna spend half the time you already do reading Lifehacker? Speed reader Scott H. Young runs down techniques for absorbing text faster and more efficiently:

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Despite the incredible importance of reading, most people are wildly inefficient at it. Like a child that never goes beyond a crawl, most people have enough reading skills to move around, but they are far from running.

These tips require some radical changes - like not vocalizing words in your mind as you read them, and using your finger to keep your eyes focused on the current word. Any speed reading lifehackers have more to add? Let 'er rip in the comments. Photo by moriza.